Davis, Dukakis? Republicans see a link (UPDATE)

UPDATE:
Davis campaign spokesman Bo Delp fired back: “That comparison isn’t worth spit — Wendy Davis owns a gun and believes in the Second Amendment. That terrifies Greg Abbott, and it’s no surprise that Greg Abbott himself doesn’t have the guts to make the comment himself. Someone held a shotgun at a political event in Texas. The sun rises in the east, too.”

ORIGINAL POST:
AUSTIN – Another bad week for Sen. Wendy Davis’ campaign for governor just got a little worse.

Davis, a Democrat who has been fighting off questions about her bio, apparently was given former Gov. Ann Richards shotgun Tuesday at a speech that most reporters were barred from attending.

It was a symbolic gesture meant to cement the tie between Texas’ last Democratic governor and the woman fighting to bring the party out of a long dry spell by following in her footsteps.

But a photo of Davis holding the gun was seized upon by Republicans who thought she looked less than natural with it. Then Dave Carney, top adviser for Attorney General Greg Abbott, the likely GOP nominee for governor, took it a step further by comparing the photo to former presidential candidate Michael Dukakis’ tank ride.